Occupational Therapist

Job Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist to join the Hull West Community Mental Health Team ( CMHT) based at the Waterloo Centre.The team use a recovery focused pathway model to support working age adults with mental health issues living in the West and Central Hull areas. The aim is to enable service users to build self-reliance, through setting agreed goals to manage their mental and physical health, living skills, responsibilities, and to develop and sustain good relationships and social networks.Occupational Therapy is a well-established and valued profession within the multi-disciplinary team, which also comprises community psychiatric nurses, social workers, care officers, technical instructors, healthcare support workers, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.The successful OT candidate will be expected to assess, and then deliver, evidence-based occupational therapy interventions, to facilitate recovery, and optimise independent functioning in self-care, productivity and leisure activities, from an occupational perspective.These interventions can take place in home environments, community settings and in-patient units, with some flexibility of working required to meet service user needs. However at this time, and in the near future, we will understandably be guided by Government policies and adaptations to working arrangements locally, to ensure safe practise.All occupational therapists have access to supervision, continuous professional development (CPD) networks, and newly qualified OT’s are invited to participate in a monthly Band 5 OT Development Group.The Trust has a very good Preceptorship programme for all professionals, which dovetails well with more specific OT preceptorship requirements. Individual, team and profession-specific training is supported, together with leadership development programmes, and the Service is committed to undergraduate student education, with occupational therapists encouraged after a reasonable period, to undertake fieldwork education and to take students on placements in the workplace.There are lots of opportunities for occupational therapists in Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, so please give us a call to discuss how this post could be the stepping stone to a valued career in the OT profession and the NHS.Why work for usHumber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addiction services to approximately 600,000 people. The Trust has been rated Good by the Care Quality Commission. The Trust is also proud to be HSJ Provider of the Year 2019 award winners.We employ approximately 2,800 staff across more than 79 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby and Scarborough. We deliver Mental Health Services, Specialist Services for Children, Forensic Services, Community and Learning Disability Services, as well as having eight GP Practices across the locality.Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - a multi-specialty health and social care teaching provider. We aim to be a leading provider of integrated health services, recognised for the care compassion and commitment of our staff and known as a great employer and a valued partner.The Trust works closely with our academic partners, including Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Hull University, nurturing and developing a workforce of doctors, nurses and other health and social care professionals of the future.At Humber we believe our people are our greatest asset and therefore we are committed to developing, growing and rewarding our workforce. As an employee at Humber you will benefit from pay in line with Agenda for Change, NHS pension, training and development, annual appraisal, generous annual leave entitlement and flexible working options to enable you to achieve a healthy work/life balance.LocationHumber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust serves the rural populations of Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Hull has benefitted from being included The Guardian’s ‘Hot List’ of places to visit and rated by Rough Guides as one of the top ten cities in the world to see. The nearby town of Beverley was named by The Sunday Times as one of the ten best places to live in the north. The area boasts a wide array of diverse property from coastal cottages to riverside apartments. Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire offer some of the most competitive house prices in the country, with access to excellent schools and further and higher education providers.The region has great transport connections with an hour commute York or Leeds. Want to go further afield There are daily ferry crossings from Hull to Belgium and the Netherlands and from Humberside Airport you can reach destinations across Europe and – via Schiphol – worldwide.For further details / informal visits contact: Derek Raitt Email: Telephone: Additional contact information: Kevin Blyth, Team Leader on